Thanks for your thoughts Chris. I do intend to go back to the boiler room to
do some more work. In the first session I shot a half roll of film too so I
am going to see what I get back from that before I head back in. My legs are
covered in mosquito bites from my 30 minutes in there (forgot to take the
bug spray plus it was 90 degrees in there and I was wearing shorts...). I am
sure there is more in the subject so I will be sure to post a follow-up.
The lighting was a bit of luck really, I thought I caught more of it but out
of 90 or so frames this was the only one that captured a bolt. My method was
unscientific and just involved firing the camera continually until the
buffer was full (shooting RAW). Because the storm was moving past and away
from Raleigh that night I didn't have to worry about getting wet thankfully!
Dan S.
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 2:03 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Two recent pics
Thanks for that Dan. The lightning shot is very clever; I am never
quick enough to catch lightning on the few occasions that we have it
here in the UK.
I like the boiler as a subject, but I feel that this image is too
"busy". But it would be great to grab detail shots and use this one
as a scene-setter. Conversion to mono would look good too.
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 19 Jul 2006, at 23:28, Daniel Sepke wrote:
> Here are a couple of recent pics taken with my E-1:
>
> <http://photo.sepke.net/001.hmtl>
>
> The first was taken with the 50mm f2 just this afternoon. The
> subject is a
> control valve on a long defunct boiler at the school I work at.
> They are due
> to have them removed soon though they have been out of service for
> over 20
> years. In person each is at least 25 feet high and have the look of
> two
> stationary steam loco's. I will be shooting them some more
> hopefully when
> there is better light.
>
> <http://photo.sepke.net/002.hmtl>
>
> The second was taken about a month ago when we had a storm pass by
> Raleigh.
> As I was heading back home this cloud was illuminated from the
> inside with
> occasional forks of lightning shooting out from the body. Quite a
> show. As
> soon as I got parked I ran in a got the camera, a tripod and
> changed lenses.
> For the next 20 minutes I got watch as the cloud deflated and the
> storm
> traveled on. This was the best shot from that session which caught
> some of
> the lightning. It was shot with the 11-22mm @22mm with an exposure
> time of
> 2.5 seconds.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Dan S.
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